Liu Jiamu was shouting happily, but Li Xinghe stopped shouting and replaced it with Tang Lezhang.
Everyone knows that this is Li Xinghe's request, but the person raising the sign to raise the price is Tang Yuezhang, the head of the Tang family, the three largest wealthy families in Hong Kong, so he has to show some dignity no matter what.
Liu Zhan had a sullen face. Although he was unwilling to do so, he still signaled Liu Jiamu not to continue bidding.
The Liu family is just a wealthy family. Compared to the wealthy Tang family, their strength is still far behind. Before they are fully powerful and rise to the top, they still have to keep a low profile.
There is no need to offend the Tang family just to get angry.
Liu Jiamu stopped shouting, so it was hard for others to refute Tang Yuezhang's reputation. No one continued to bid, and the ruler was immediately photographed by Tang Yuezhang.
Li Xinghe was very excited to get the ruler, but the people in the Li family's camp couldn't see Li Xinghe's happiness. In order to flatter the Li family, they all started mocking him.
"Haha... Is this inside guy stupid?
A piece of broken town ruler, worth at most one million, he spent more than three million to buy it and he still thinks he got a bargain!"
"Either the people from the mainland are all being taken advantage of! They say it's a charity dinner, but they really think they are here to be good people and make donations!"
"That's it! What a shame! I lost three million in vain and I'm still happy like a fool."
"Although it's just a drop in the bucket, it's still money! You can still hear a sound when it falls into the water. This guy actually bought a broken ruler that no one cares about!"
"Look, he probably doesn't have that much money and just wants to buy something cheap to show off!"
"Well, that makes sense. He can't afford it for tens of millions or hundreds of millions, but buying a broken ruler for a few million can still attract attention and sensation. He just wants to take the opportunity to be in the limelight, but he doesn't know that in our eyes, this is a shame.
Behavior!"
"It will only attract everyone's contempt and ridicule! Limelight?
forget it!"
There was another burst of laughter. In order to please the Li family, these people also tried their best and made all kinds of vulgar remarks frequently. How could they look like rich people from the upper class?
Li Wanjun sneered, looked at Li Xinghe with disdain and said: "Li Xinghe, is it interesting to do such a little trick?"
"Three million can buy a ruler. If I mind, you should go to a psychiatrist as soon as possible."
"Master Li, you are too kind. How can such a person deserve your attention?"
"Ha ha……"
Except for the people from the Xu family camp, everyone else had a mocking smile on their faces.
Xu Hongjun was so angry that smoke was coming out of his nose, and when he was about to stand up and scold him, he was stopped by Li Xinghe.
"Master, these people have gone too far!"
"Let them laugh! They probably won't be able to laugh anymore."
Xu Hongjun was stunned and asked in confusion: "Master, what does this mean?"
Xu Yiman was also curious. Seeing Li Xinghe's confident look, she suddenly thought of something.
"Xinghe, isn't this ruler extraordinary?"
Li Xinghe smiled slightly, nodded and said, "Well, when has your man ever been taken advantage of?"
"Since I am willing to pay a high price to buy it, it proves that this ruler has such value."
Xu Hongjun took the ruler and looked at it several times, wondering: "Master, this is just an ordinary Hetian jade ruler! The year has been confirmed, it is from the Guangxu period, there is nothing special about it!"
Upon noticing this action, the Li family immediately laughed even more happily.
"Oh my god! They still want to make up for themselves!"
"You have to understand that after spending more than three times the price to buy a broken ruler and losing all face, of course you are not willing to accept it. You have to find something to make up for it, otherwise the Xu family will be embarrassed along with it."
"Haha! No matter how much you look for it, it's useless. This is a ruler. I don't believe that gold can fall out of the ruler?"
"Even if gold falls out, it may not be worth more than three million!"
"That makes sense, haha..."
Laughter spread all around, but Li Xinghe remained calm. He asked the host for a small hammer, and on the stage, in full view of everyone, he smashed the ruler into pieces.
Snapped!
A crisp sound shocked everyone.
The ruler broke into pieces. Li Xinghe unhurriedly put the ruler upright and tipped it down on the table. Two jade seals fell out, one sapphire and one white jade.
"I'll wipe it! No gold fell out, only two jade seals fell out!"
Everyone was stunned, and the whole place was silent for a moment. Everyone craned their necks to look at the stage, for fear of missing something exciting.
"This is……"
The host was also shocked. He had never seen such a situation in all his years of working in the industry.
"These are the two jade seals of the Old Summer Palace that were lost when the Old Summer Palace was plundered. The green jade seal is the seal of Baohe Taihe, and the white jade seal is the seal of the Old Summer Palace."
"This...how is this possible?"
Although I don’t know much about cultural relics, if they are really the cultural relics that were looted and lost in the Old Summer Palace, their value must be very high.
"Hmph! Do you think so?"
Liu Zhan said coldly: "How can the lost cultural relics of the Old Summer Palace be inside this broken ruler?
You must be causing trouble on purpose!"
"Well, Mr. Liu is right! I have heard about these two jade seals. I heard that they were snatched away by country F and put on display in a museum!"
"These two jade seals must be fake. They are used by you to deceive us and try to gain some limelight!"
After the shock, everyone began to question the authenticity of the jade seal.
Li Xinghe smiled slightly and said: "You are right, there are indeed two jade seals on display in the National F Museum, but in fact those two are fake."
"Nonsense! Is the Congress showing off two fake jade seals as treasures?"
"I think this insider is really crazy about being in the limelight."
Li Xinghe was not in a hurry and continued: "What they got were jade seals made during the same period, but the Yuanmingyuan jade seals were made from the two best ones, and the others were scraps with more or less flaws.
, when it was robbed, the jade seal was hidden in this ruler and was taken out."
"In other words, these two jade seals are real!"
Xu Hongjun said in shock.
"Yes!"
"impossible!"
Liu Zhan said excitedly: "Li Xinghe, your ability to tell stories is top-notch. In order to attract attention, you even dare to tell such lies!"
"Whether what I said is true, I just need to ask the master treasure appraiser here to identify it, right?"
Li Xinghe said calmly: "Since there are so many cultural relics being auctioned, there must be very authoritative experts."
"Well, you can have this."
Ge Feibai then invited the cultural relic appraisal experts invited by the organizer to come over.
There are three people in total, all of whom are well-known treasure appreciating experts in the country. The most famous among them is Mr. Wei Yutang, an eighty-year-old treasure appraiser who is highly recognized by the domestic cultural relics industry.
"Mr. Wei, come and help me with my eyes."
Ge Feibai said politely.
"no problem."
Wei Yutang and two other experts came to the stage tremblingly. If this jade seal is real, it is a priceless treasure. Just like the emperor's jade seal, the jade seal symbolizes the glory of the Old Summer Palace.
In his lifetime of appraising treasures, Wei Yutang has never appraised such a treasure. For such a treasure appraiser, this is an honor.